UNWAKING THE DEAD?

[10.00 - French Time] Read on The Guardian website. Trevor Eve, Peter Boyd in Waking the Dead for the BBC, will star in the three-part drama Kidnap and Ransom for ITV1.

Eve will be Dominic King, an international hostage negotiator, alongside John Hannah, Helen Baxendale and Emma Fielding. Kidnap and Ransom is co-produced by Projector Pictures - Trevor Eve's production company - and Talkback Thames (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/08/trevor-eve-kidnap-and-ransom-itv). It will be shot in South Africa, like the recent remake of The Prisoner for AMC/ITV or Outcasts, the Kudos drama project for BBC One.

There are rumors that Waking the Dead is among the long-running dramas to be axed soon by the BBC. The show exists since 2000.